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41 " I missed 'em, sure enough, true and deep and hard, but the loving was stronger than the missing.--Joseph Johnson on p. 233 Some Kind of Courage "
― Dan Gemeinhart , Some Kind of Courage
42 " Maybe we’re all a little broken. Maybe we’re all a little fragile. Maybe that’s why we need each other so much. "
― Dan Gemeinhart , The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise
43 " I was strong from losing them, maybe, but any goodness in me came from having them." (p. 124) "
44 " It's funny how sometimes when a face goes gentle, it ends up looking stronger somehow. "
45 " I was every different kind of sad there is. And every kind of determined, too. In all that I thought of, I never thought of stopping. "
― Dan Gemeinhart , The Honest Truth
46 " The world is dark. But together we build light; shared, it keeps us warm. "
47 " She swallowed. I'm there. He didn't exactly say it proud. He didn't exactly say it scared. Like his words couldn't decide what part of his heart they came from. And her ears couldn't decide what part of her heart heard them. "
48 " There are good wake-ups, like when you drift out of sleep slow and easy and wake up curled up all warm with your cat. There's waking up on Christmas and waking up on your birthday and waking up to the smell of bacon cooking. All good wake-ups. "
49 " Beau was a small dog. But size doesn't tell you anything about how important something is. "
50 " I don't need them," I whispered, squinting out at the town, the shadows. "I don't need anybody." It was true, maybe, but I didn't like how my words sounded more mean than strong. "
51 " No. You can't leave a library. Without a book. "
― Dan Gemeinhart , Scar Island
52 " Sometimes making friends is tough, and sometimes it's as simple as finding someone who loves books and kittens as much as you do. "
53 " (W)herever your heart wants to go, go there and don't look back. "
54 " They would miss me. But they would be around to miss me. They got to go on living.Jess had kept my secrect. So what. She'd had to keep the secret of where I was going to die -- but I was the one who had to go there and do the dying.My mom would never get to tuck me in, sure. But I would ever be warm again.My dad would sit alone at a dark table. I was going to die alone in a snowstorm.They would cry when I was gone, but I would be the one who was gone. They had all the tomorrows in the world to start feeling better."It's not fair!" I shouted. The wind swallowed my words and blew them to icy dust. "
55 " The song sounded like it was about heartbreak, or hope, or maybe a little bit of both. "
56 " The aloneness howled louder than the wind.Louder even, than my anger.My teeth chattered. "
57 " Even when you're talking to someone who might not know what you're saying, lying to good people just feels bad. But it had to be done. So I did it. "
58 " She missed him with the kind of missing that almost feels like anger. "
59 " That's the kind of friend she was. We were so together that we weren't ever really apart. "
60 " I knew all about anger. That's the truth. "